NIECHAJ BĘDZIE WIADOMYM
Let the Record Show

Author(s): Sarah Schulman
Contributor(s): Aleksandra Sobczak-Kövesi (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: ACT UP; HIV/AIDS; activism; oral history; feminism
Summary/Abstract: The chapter is an excerpt from Sarah Schulman’s lecture on the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), detailing the organization’s history, strategies, and impact. Schulman recounts ACT UP’s activism against government inaction and pharmaceutical greed during the AIDS crisis, highlighting its successes in changing AIDS definitions and drug access policies. She emphasizes the crucial role of diverse voices, particularly women and people of color, within the predominantly white male organization, and contrasts ACT UP’s approach to other representations of AIDS activism, which stemmed from a unique operational strategy of direct action informed by feminist principles. The chapter also explores the creation of the ACT UP Oral History Project to document the movement’s legacy and counter inaccurate narratives.

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